Shelter’s claim that Britain needs 3 million new affordable homes at the rate of 300,000 new builds a year is both timely and on the ball. The present system, in which a handful of new social housing is completed each year, while millions of families live in rented accommodation they cannot afford which has to […]
The NHS is chronically underfunded, the more so if you include social care. The much trumpeted £20 billion a year extra to be reached over five years is really inadequate, as the government very well knows. The budget of roughly £125 billion sounds a lot but in the context of the entire health system it […]
You can well ask. Never has the political situation in this country been more confused and uncertain when a major constitutional and economic change is bearing down upon a parliament unable to agree about anything. May still thinks she can get her deal through the House. Perhaps. But Perhaps not. Then what? A crash Brexit. […]
Trump is obsessing about his Wall. His redneck base loves it. But the majority of Americans are repelled by it because walls are a very un-American idea. That fact and the desire for an affordable national healthcare system providing universal cover no matter what infirmities you have, is the reason that the Republicans lost the […]
Zara Vine is a modern woman with a troubled history and a talent for turning baggage into power. As the youngest Detective Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police she is forced to resign because of an armed response in which an innocent is shot. Her career in tatters, her marriage over and worst of all, the […]
GET YOUR COPY NOW! A Gift of Treason The narrow, ordered life of a gentle but almost reclusive artist, Jane Block, is disturbed when a bequest, intended for her dead mother, passes to her. Mystery surrounds the nature of the inheritance and Jane is led on a sinister trail to secrets of the past, forcing her […]